Fixated as I am on the Bill Clinton engineered 1999 repeal of the Depression era Glass-Steagall Act that separated boring banking from casino gambling "investment" banking, I was really shocked to see Bubba cry out against Republican taxation and deregulation in his current TV commercial calling for President Obama's re-election:

"Mark that date, 1999. Clinton was the president and, at the urging of Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin -- like virtually all of the recent treasury secretaries, a creature of Wall Street -- Congress scrapped much of Glass-Steagall, which separated commercial and "investment" banking, and replaced it with a pale copy called Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Retained was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), which was part of Glass-Steagall."

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I'm going to keep my eyes on both Republican and Democratic TV commercials and fact-check them myself. If I see a Republican candidate saying Social Security is broke, I'll call him or her out; similarly, I'll ask Democrats what's wrong with auditing the Federal Reserve. I've seen left-wing blogs calling for transparency in the Federal Reserve a crackpot, Tea Party concept. These bloggers have forgotten about the highly secret origin of the Federal Reserve in the first place